“They” I mean scientists, are constantly telling you, we,
have all the answers. It’s all a pretty well proven science. Well, “they”
couldn’t be any further from the truth.
I was reading two articles this past week. One a book review
on, “The Half-Life of Physicists” and the other on, “armed with old bones and
new DNA sequencing technology, scientists are getting a much better
understanding” of the prehistory and background of the human species.
The book review writes. Einstein set out on a search for a
unified geometrical theory of gravity and electromagnetism and would spend the
rest of his life on this project, joined in later years by Schrödinger. They
had no success, and the problem still resists the best minds around.
According to our current understanding, the line of research
that Einstein and Schrödinger were pursuing was hopeless. While most of their
colleagues were moving on to the study of such quantum-field theories, the two
of them resisted, feeling to different degrees that such theories were likely
inherently flawed.
What they found most problematic was the role that
probability seemed to play in quantum theory, with calculations yielding only
statistical predictions, not certain answers. Little did they appreciate the
role of an infinite mind, impossible to comprehend, behind creation.
Einstein famously summarized his objection as “G-d does not
play dice with the universe.” Schrödinger responded with, “don’t tell G-d how
to run His world.”
I’m afraid to say both, weren’t getting us any closer to
master the secret code of the universe, while ignoring the continuous and
constant influence G-d has on the Universe and in each person’s life. That’s
why our good or opposite of good deeds still matter. That’s why, how and where,
prayer makes a difference.
Imagine what it must have been like to look through the
first telescopes or the first microscopes, or to see the bottom of the sea as
clearly as if the water were gin. This huge article in the WSJ tells us, this
is how students of human prehistory are starting to feel, thanks to a new
ability to study ancient DNA extracted from bodies and bones in archaeological
sites.
While they felt they were already seeing the gin years ago,
only recently, they are coming to realize the muddied waters of the past.
Low-cost, high-throughput DNA sequencing—a technique in
which millions of DNA base-pairs are automatically read in parallel—appeared on
the scene less than a decade ago. NO MORE THAN TEN YEARS AGO! It has already
transformed our ability to see just how the genes of human beings, their
domestic animals and their diseases have changed over thousands of years.
Before these technical innovations, reading DNA required the
laborious amplification of short segments, one at a time. By 2008, companies
such as 454 Life Sciences in Branford, Conn., and the San Diego-based Illumina
began marketing machines that could read millions of DNA samples in parallel.
In the past, researchers wanting to study ancient or modern DNA had to sip from
raindrops; now they can drink from fire hoses.
Now let’s get this straight.
It’s not like I have anything against science, but let’s not
constantly and regularly over exaggerate their accuracy and dependability. G-d
Himself in the Bible instructs us to respect common accepted knowledge and
conclusions of science, but never if it flies against the instructions and
wisdom of G-d. G-d allows us a small area to function, but without Him, we
would fail again and again.
When we go to a Doctor we know the Doctor as good as he or
she may be, doesn’t know everything. Living here in South Florida we certainly
know how much the weatherman knows, no disrespect intended.
Resting once a week on the Sabbath, drinking wine a few
times a week, cleaning our hands before eating, meditating on the purpose and
goals of life before retiring to bed every night and the first thing in the
morning is still recognized as the best advice to live by, suggested by the
Bible.
Time to join more classes on our heritage, and discover what
is, and has always been, the wave of the future.
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